My high school hosted the county's special day class for kids with severe cognitive and physical disabilities, a majority from spina bifida. If this stem cell method can actually repair the spinal cord before birth, the quality of life improvement is absolutely enormous.
Does the physical repair also help with the mental developmental effects? Children with spinal bifida often develop cognitive abilities much slower than children without it.
Incredible to see some promising results in stem cell research. Hopefully a safe and successful application can give a boost to some other areas where stem cells might prove useful (like maybe one day we can regrow damaged heart tissue like this).
Not only is it possible, fetal surgery is more or less standard treatment for spina bifida at this point. The news here is about the stem cell patch being applied during the surgery. (I have a child with spina bifida. We tried to get her into this trial, but did not qualify.)
There are people who do not want to have abortions. Either for religious reasons, because they themselves belong to a specific disability group (e.g. the blind and deaf) or because they tried hard already to get pregnant in the first place.
Especially for the latter, "make a new one" can mean a ticket reaching into the 6 figures, months of egg extractions, implantation attempts and spontaneous auto-abortions.
What a gross and idiotic take. “Just abort it”; i’m pro choice, but IMO life must be regarded as more sacred than what ‘ole tsss here considers. I can only conclude tsss has never dealt with any real loss in their life.
- operating in utero
- while the mother is awake
- in an outpatient/doctor's office setting
- to implant a balloon in the upper respiratory tract of a fetus with a, I believe, cleft palate so that it's lungs can develop normally.
It really is wild what modern medicine can do these days.
0 - https://www.netflix.com/title/81004466
Especially for the latter, "make a new one" can mean a ticket reaching into the 6 figures, months of egg extractions, implantation attempts and spontaneous auto-abortions.